Tool-box



(No Model.)

1- Si H. JENNINGS.

'TooL BOX. No. 428,396. n Patented May ZO, 1890.

v v v *v y UNITED VSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMEON H. JENNINGS, OF DEP RIVER, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,396, dated May 20,1890.

Application tiled April 4, 1890. Serial No. 346,569. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMEON H. JENNINGs, of Deep River, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Im provement inPackages for Auger-Bits; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, in-

Figure 1, a perspective view of the package closed; Fig. 2, atransversesection of the case, showing the bits therein; Fig. 3, a longitudinalvertical section of the same, cutting through one of the grooves in eachsection; Fig. fha transverse section of the box with the bits removed,and showing the upper section as turned up from the next section below.

This invention relates to an improvement in packages for containing setsof auger-bits, the package being in the form of a box or case, so thatthe bits may all lie therein side by side. Heretofore these packageshave been constructed in the form of a box divided horizontally at thecenter, the two parts hinged together so as to open fiat, each part ofthe box provided with seats for the bits, the bits being supportedtherein. Inasmuch as the cover portion of the box is inverted in openingand closing, and as either part may be the cover, according tocircumstances, it is necessary to lock every bit in its seat in the box.To accomplish this result some button or clamping device is required.

The object of my invention is the construction of a box in which theselocking devices may be avoided, the package made very compact, andeasily accessible to all the bits; and it consists in the constructionof the box as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in theclaim.

In the illustration the box is composed of three sections A, B, and Cand a cover D, the section B being hinged to the section A at one edge,as at a, and the section C to the section B, preferably atA the sameedge, as at h, and the cover D hinged preferably to the same edge of C,as at c, and, as seen in Fig. 2, the division between the parts is in ahorizontal plane.

The bottom of each part of the box is longitudinally grooved, as at CZcf,&c. yThese grooves are semicircular in transverse section, as seen inFig. 2, to form seats for the respective bits, and the diameter of thegrooves corresponds to the size of the bit to rest therein, and thegrooves vary in depth from the upper edge of the section of the boxcorresponding to the difference in diameter ofthe bits restingtherein-that is to say, the several grooves in each section, as CZ c f,section A, Fig. 2, are of a depth from the plane of the upper edge ofkthat section corresponding to the diameter of the bits to rest therein,so that the several bits of varying diameter will so rest in the saidsections that their upper sides will stand in substantially the plane ofthe upper edge of that section, and so that the bottom E of the nextsection above will substantially bear upon those severalbits, as seen inFig. 2, and thus will hold the several bits in that section so firmly intheir respective seats as to prevent displacement. In the next section Bthe grooves are formed in like manner, varying in width according to thevarying diameters of the bits, and so that, the several bits of thatsection resting in their respective grooves, the upper sides of theseveral bits will in like manner standin the plane of the bottom of thenext section C, and the said section C has its grooves formed in likemanner, so that the several bits resting therein will be in the plane ofthe upper edge, and so that, the cover D, when closed,

will hold the bits of that section in place, as

described for the other sections. These cases are usually prepared for astandard set of bits; but it will be understood that more or lesssections may be employed. 4By this` construction the several bits areheld in their places without the application of a device within the casefor this purpose, and so that when the section containing the bits isopened the bits are free to be removed.

A fastening device, as r, is applied to the sections and cover as ameans for securing them in the closed position.

The bottoms of the sections are readily formed by making a series ofiiutes running longitudinally of the bottom of the size and shaperequired.

I claim- The herein-described package for auger- IOO bit-s,consisting ofa case composed of two or in said section, their upper sides will lie inmore sections divided in a horizontal plane the said plane of the upperedge of the secand hinged together, the bottom upon the inside of theseveral sections grooved longitudinally, the grooves substantiallysemicircular in transverse section and varying in depth from the planeof the upper edge of the seetions according to the variation in thediameter of the bits, and so that, the bits resting tio11,eaehsucceeding section forming the cover for the section below it,substantially as described.

SIMEON H. JENNINGS. Witnesses:

FRED G. EARLE, LILLIAN D. KELsEY.

